"Wow... imagine this. The aliens show up, expecting fanfare. Parades! Fireworks! But instead... nothing. Just Bob in his truck saying, 'Eh, saw weirder things in Florida.' The aliens, they’re furious. They traveled light-years... for this? I mean, they’re thinking, 'At least a tweet would’ve been nice!' But no, we’re too busy arguing about pineapple on pizza. Unbelievable!"

"The fates of people and of states, of entire civilizations, can depend on whether an extraordinary person can bring forth the proper strength of soul and action."
— Jacob Burckhardt

"The corruption of the mind is much more a plague than any such contaminating change in the surrounding air we breathe.
The latter infects animate creatures in their animate nature: the former infects human beings in their humanity."
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

?? Edmundo González said in Brussels that he will return to Venezuela to "take office" on January 10

https://elpublicotv.com/edmundo-gonzalez-dió-en-bruselas-que-regresara-a-venezuela-para-tomar-posesion-el-10-de-enero/

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